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The Board of Works for St. Giles District.
SURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT-REPORT.
Gentlemen,—
Appended is a summary, of the Works commenced, completed,
and in progress under the superintendence of this Department for the
year ending 25th March, 1874.
MAINTENANCE OF STREETS.
The cost of keeping in repair the undermentioned Macadamized
Streets in the District during the year, namely, Bedford Square,
Bedford Place, Bernard Street, Brunswick Square, Chenies Street,
Hart Street, Montague Street, Russell Square, Torrington Place,
Upper Bedford Place, &c., was as follows:—
1,702 yards of broken Granite £1,354 10 2
The cost of labour in repairing and spreading the
materials on the streets for the year was . 133 14 11
The cost of the steam roller in consolidating the
Macadam was 67 14 6
Making together £1,555 19 7
CARRIAGE-WAYS.
The Carriage-way Paving of the following Streets have been
redressed and relayed on a bed of concrete 9 inches deep,
at the following cost:—
Crown Street £522 7 6
Streatham Street 75 17 8
Bloomsbury Market 111910
Compton Mews 379 4 5
Tavistock Mews 349 11 4
The following Streets have been repaved with new Aberdeen
Granite Cubes:—
Tottenham Court Road £2,009 1 7
Holborn (from Newton Street to New Oxford
Street) 834 4 11
Making together £2,843 6 6
The attention of the Board has been called to the several systems
of Paving lately tried in Holborn, the Strand, and the City, and
they have been urged to adopt the same. Two of the patented
Asphaltes used for that purpose in King William Street, City,
c 2